Owning your own home

Didn't get our offer accepted on Claremont Road house :(

Is that polmadie your talking about, as its an absolute farce. But id expect nothing less than that from GCC

Whats for you wont go buy you. Onto the next one.

Whats for you wont go buy you. Onto the next one.

Nice typo. :)

The north west one, folk who get turned away just drive a few hundred metre's down the industrial estate and dump their load next to the park, quite sad really.

Have found in more rural places, the folk who operate and run the council waste sites in Scotland are total opposite, will bound up to your vehicle/bike (!) and ask what you've got and how best to position yourself for max unloading efficiency, sometimes will physically help too, theres still some grumpy ones but on the whole, a different experience. Likely years worth of dealing with city assholes has ground them down though :p

Bordering on bodge territory here, but not looking likely that I'll have a electrician turn up in time for power to be run out to boiler.
Can I wire a socket, and a fused spur to a plug?
*Not as a permament solution, but I've a RCB protected socket for site power.

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The guys at Jenkins Lane in Beckton are sound, I've accidentally takebmn restricted items (a door, a toilet) there a couple of times and they've not charged me. On Sunday last week, they were trying to give me a load of working power tools someone had dumped that they weren't allowed to take with them.

For a boiler?!

Combi gas boiler. He fitted a 3Amp fused switch, and socket for the thermostat, but the dickhead sparks did an afternoon's work one week ago,(CU change) and haven't been back.
Just want to get power out to the boiler so it can be commissioned.
Can't see it being any different to the boiler being directly wire to a 3 point plug.

different to the boiler being directly wire to a 3 point plug

It’s more likely it’ll be powered off during operation if plugged in to a socket with a switch than if it was directly wired back to the distribution board. I don’t know if that’s material.

The main concern would be that the cable and fuse in the plug are compatible with the current draw. With 3amp being sufficient you should be fine as a temporary measure. I would be tempted to put a plug on the boiler supply cable and plug it into a normal extension lead.

Of course there may be other reasons you shouldn't do that that I can't see from your drawing.

Thanks, that's pretty much what I was thinking. I'll speak to the installer and see what he's happy to use to commisson it, getting fed up boiling water to wash hands etc.

Screed went down in the cellar this morning, my Wife didn't close the door after popping down to have a look. :/

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"Wife"?

A dog would never do that to your freshly laid screed, only one animal would be this evil.

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I know, the perennial question, but does anyone have a recco for a surveyor in London that will give us ballpark figures for remedial work?

Surveys are generally a waste of money, but I’d like some leverage on the sale price.

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you got bin bag?

I preferred the original blue-black colour

Which is the before?

Second one has some kind of decorative leaf formation going on. Much nice, so impress, blower or broom?

Outdoor chessboard?

Locks too wonky

;)

Lovely. Are you in Forest Gate? If so, which road?

Lovely. Are you in Forest Gate? If so, which road?